Re: How to convert a regular file to a sym link?

On Thursday 01 December 2005 18:15, Matt England wrote:

> Any more thoughts on this?  I need to solve this problem pretty soon, would
like to do this for all my files across the board in a more-elegant way then
the following:
> >The only thing I can think of right now is to 'svn revert', 'svn del',
> > then 'svn add' the file after running my ldconfig (that creates the sym
> > link) again.  This seems rather cumbersome to do for every file.
>
> To be clear, all these files show up as:
>
> # svn status
> ~     mylib.so.1.0
> [...]
>
> Thanks for any help.  More details below.

I would try something like this (careful, commands untested! Dont run them as
root, check before!):

*nix> for i in `svn st | awk '/^~/{print $2}'`; do ( set -x; mv $i $i-old; svn
del $i; svn ci -m "Deleting $i" $i; mv $i-old $i; svn add $i; sv ci
"Committing new $i"; ) done

To check that the commands really do what you want, put 'true' or 'echo' in
front of every 'svn' and 'mv' command in the above example and run the
resulting command; when you see that it is going to do what you want, remove
'echo/trure' and run once more.

Hope this helps.

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